Photo: English: General Montgomery Inspects Royal Ulster Rifles, May 1944
General Sir Bernard Montgomery standing on the bonnet of a jeep speaking to troops of 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, after carrying out an inspection of the battalion near Portsmouth in the run-up to D-Day. The battalion had previously served in his division earlier in the war.
Date | between 1939 and 1945
Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//60/media-60431/large.jpg | This is photograph H 38645 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. |
Author | Morris (Sgt), War Office official photographer
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(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.
Part of | War Office Second World War Official Collection
Subjects | Associated people and organisationsBritish Army, Royal Ulster Rifles, 2nd Battalion, Montgomery, Bernard LawAssociated placesPortsmouth, Hampshire, England, UKAssociated eventsD-Day, Normandy Landings 1944, North West Europe, Second World WarAssociated themesBritish Army 1939-1945
Category | photographs
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General Sir Bernard Montgomery standing on the bonnet of a jeep speaking to troops of 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles, after carrying out an inspection of the battalion near Portsmouth in the run-up to D-Day. The battalion had previously served in his division earlier in the war.
Date | between 1939 and 1945
Source | http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//60/media-60431/large.jpg | This is photograph H 38645 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. |
Author | Morris (Sgt), War Office official photographer
Permission
(Reusing this file) | This image was created and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. Photographs taken, or artworks created, by a member of the forces during their active service duties are covered by Crown Copyright provisions. Faithful reproductions may be reused under that licence, which is considered expired 50 years after their creation.
Part of | War Office Second World War Official Collection
Subjects | Associated people and organisationsBritish Army, Royal Ulster Rifles, 2nd Battalion, Montgomery, Bernard LawAssociated placesPortsmouth, Hampshire, England, UKAssociated eventsD-Day, Normandy Landings 1944, North West Europe, Second World WarAssociated themesBritish Army 1939-1945
Category | photographs
Image Sorted | yes
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Normandy ’44: 1 of 8: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France Hardcover – June 4, 2019 by James Holland (Author)
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the seventy-six days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the west―the object of books, films, television series, and documentaries. Yet as familiar as it is, as James Holland makes clear in his definitive history, many parts of the OVERLORD campaign, as it was known, are still shrouded in myth and assumed knowledge.
Drawing freshly on widespread archives and on the testimonies of eye-witnesses, Holland relates the extraordinary planning that made Allied victory in France possible; indeed, the story of how hundreds of thousands of men, and mountains of materiel, were transported across the English Channel, is as dramatic a human achievement as any battlefield exploit. The brutal landings on the five beaches and subsequent battles across the plains and through the lanes and hedgerows of Normandy―a campaign that, in terms of daily casualties, was worse than any in World War I―come vividly to life in conferences where the strategic decisions of Eisenhower, Rommel, Montgomery, and other commanders were made, and through the memories of paratrooper Lieutenant Dick Winters of Easy Company, British corporal and tanker Reg Spittles, Thunderbolt pilot Archie Maltbie, German ordnance officer Hans Heinze, French resistance leader Robert Leblanc, and many others.
For both sides, the challenges were enormous. The Allies confronted a disciplined German army stretched to its limit, which nonetheless caused tactics to be adjusted on the fly. Ultimately ingenuity, determination, and immense materiel strength―delivered with operational brilliance―made the difference. A stirring narrative by a pre-eminent historian, Normandy ‘44 offers important new perspective on one of history’s most dramatic military engagements and is an invaluable addition to the literature of war.
